Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-06-Speech-3-129"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-11-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common agricultural policy (CAP) (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021106.9.3-129"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-06-Speech-3-1302
lpv:speaker	lp:Gordon J. Adam2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the common agricultural policy is out of date. It is urgently in need of reform if we are going to make a success of enlargement and of our commitment to open our markets to under-developed countries. Given the recent attitudes of the Council, the European Parliament has a heavy responsibility to give strong support to the Commission's proposals for a mid-term review. These, though not perfect, point in the right direction. Further market reform, with the decoupling of direct payments from production and the reinforcement of rural development, is most welcome. The proposals will put us in a stronger position in the World Trade Organisation negotiations. However, our Agriculture Committee is dominated by farmers and farmers' interests and it is blinded by two obsessions. The first is for protection against imported food and the second is for a guaranteed annual subsidy to be available to the farming industry as a whole. The concept of a really competitive European agriculture in the world market without subsidy is far from the Committee's thinking. The resolution pays lip service to reform but attaches so many conditions that I doubt whether the needs of enlargement, nor our obligations under the WTO, could be met. The agricultural policies should be redirected so that they encourage farmers to be more enterprising. Whatever financial assistance is given should not be seen as a right. It must be earned and in a manner that the public can accept. I would have liked to have seen the Commission proposals go further. We need to move towards world market prices by progressively reducing direct payments, we need to end quotas and make sure that the annual budget actually starts to reduce. It is ridiculous that 50% of our Community budget should be spent on a declining contribution to our GDP."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (2000-02-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (2000-02-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-09-25--2004-04-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-09-25--2004-04-30)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Adam (PSE )."1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph